discourse
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Many aren’t even old enough to vote, yet they still organize movements and engage in civic discourse on a massive scale.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
And thereby such major religions as Hinduism—the world’s third-largest faith—are excluded from human-rights discourse, international bodies and religious-freedom monitoring organizations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Credit where credit is due, though, he’s already made a mark on the political discourse that will have the staying power of a jagged scar.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
He laments the absence of such discourse in the Villages; people either don't talk politics, he says, or only discuss it with those they know well or are certain to share their views.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
So though we had great will to speak to the other, we were constrained in our discourse; I fretted at my ignorance.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Grade 11, List 3
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